Ittay Flescher is a freelance educator and journalist in Jerusalem.
Ittay Flescher
By Ittay Flescher
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Community At Balfour, disparate voices unite to protest against Netanyahu
“A Prime Minister can only be replaced at the ballot box!” How many times have anti-corruption protesters heard this phrase since Netanyahu was indicted on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust? The oft-repeated retort to the only demand that unites all the protestors ignores Israeli history, where there have been many occasions of…
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Community ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ Inspires Fight Against Religious Coercion In Ireland — And Israel
From the moment Atwood’s book was converted by Bruce Miller to a multi-award winning TV series, comparisons haven’t stopped between the horror it depicts and the potential evils of populist nationalism inspired by extremist interpretations of sacred texts. When writing the novel in 1985, Margaret Atwood made a rule for herself that her work of…
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Community I Never Imagined Seeing My Religious Former Principal In Handcuffs
A version of this article originally appeared in +61J, an Australian Jewish publication. As a former teacher at the Adass Israel school in Melbourne, Australia, I never imagined that a day would come when I would be sitting in a Jerusalem courtroom a meter away from the principal of the school with handcuffs around her…
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